Yeah but think of the kickbacks...........the mind boggles.
Is it politically correct to call it a ‘bullet’ train?
This is not about building any damn train! It’s about consultants collecting millions of taxpayer dollars in return for their financial support of Guvner Brown and the California Democrat Socialist Party.
Willie Green Memorial Ping.
I so miss Willy Green on these threads... :(
3x longer than planned to build.
3x higher cost than budgeted.
1/3 the passengers and revenue.
If you are a democrat or union guy, you’re in heaven.
The continuing comi-tragedy that is California.
“California’s Bullet Train Will Take Even Longer To Go Nowhere”
Sounds like an apropriate metaphor for liberal ideas.
The LATimes story on which this IBD article is based is quite good. Speaks to geologists and engineers about the challenges of tunneling through the San Gabriel mountains. Made is sound as though Cave-ins will be very difficult to predict or prevent. The mountains are highly friable.
California’s answer to “The Big Dig”
Boston’s multi-billion dollar boondoggle that seems to have done not much to alleviate traffic problems
Apparently when you funnel EVERYONE through a few openings in the ground you still have lines hours long on the thruway.
It took me 3 hours to get to the airport once, and it is a half-hour drive with no traffic.
The bullet train is a classic example of bait and switch.
It was sold with a low price tag, unrealistic assumptions and no real financing plan in place.
Voters are not going to be delivered what they were promised.
Its unlikely to ever be built.
I take it BO$$ TWEED is in charge of this boondoggle?
Sixty eight BILLION? Like 4 and a half Big Digs? Man, that could fix a hell of a lot of roads and bridges.
I do heavy construction for a nationwide contractor and would love to snag a chunk of a job tha size, but that is an insane amount of money for a high speed rail line that really won’t provide much solution to whatever the perceived problem may be.
But, but, but you don’t understand. It’s the IDEA of “green” bullet trains that is important to “Progressives”, not whether they are actually built or anybody will actually want to ride one. Building and operating bullet trains are just gritty, unimportant details to be handled by those little people who know how to do things and who live in flyover states. You know, those people they make fun of all the time while they are busy supporting Barrack, Hillary, and Bernie.
Feinstein’s retirement. The private contractor leading the project is her husband, Richard Blum. See http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/17/sen-feinsteins-husbands-company-to-bag-1-billion-for-government-deal/
The estimate is a crock. It is already over $100 billion and climbing. That train to nowhere has violated every promise made in the proposition. The courts ruled against it because of this yet the democrats are spending our money for their cronies who will launder it back into the democrat party.
I got a ‘Reported Attack Site’ warning when going to this page.
Can’t we put it to another vote? No one wants this stupid train. Or is there one guy in Burbank who goes to Merced every Tuesday?
The Delta Smelt apparently hasn't done enough damage to make "fair market value" sufficiently pleasing to Richard Blum. They must need another cause. Pesky landowners looking to cash in on the subsidized real estate deals they did under Pat Brown. Who do they think they are?